Congress walkout from Assam assembly after speaker rejects adjournment motion to discuss price hike issue

After the question hour of the first of the assembly session, opposition Congress demanded adjournment of the other matters of the assembly to discuss about the price hike of essential commodities.

Opposition leader Debabrata Saikia, former minister Rockybul Hussain and other Congress legislators sought to discuss the price hiking issue, but Parliamentary affairs minister Chandra Mohan Patowary said that price hike is continuing in past 15 years and it is not a recent issue.

The Assam minister requested the speaker to reject the adjournment motion at this time and it should be brought up later.

Following the minister's request, the speaker gave his ruling against the opposition's demand.

While the speaker gave his ruling, Congress MLA Rockybul Hussain opposed the ruling and raised the rules on admissibility motion.

Former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi also opposed the speaker's ruling and said that it is a dictatorial attitude.

Arguments between both opposition and ruling government, the speaker reserved his ruling and Congress legislators staged a walkout from the assembly protesting against not being allowed to raise their voice in the price hike issue.

Opposition leader Debabrata Saikia said that, price hiking issue is a very concerning issue and Congress wanted to discuss about the issue.

"But the speaker showing his dictatorial attitude. Following it, we had decided walkout from the assembly," Debabrata Saikia said.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)